Ertapenem 1000 mg/10 ml IV (dilution #1) desensitization - cnr at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$192.58
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$550.22
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$19.27 with United vs $135.53 with MHealth Network — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United | Commercial|Exchange | $19.27 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $26.42 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $26.42 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $29.82 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $30.35 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $30.74 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $32.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $32.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $35.24 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $35.24 | ↓ -82% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $36.60 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $38.10 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Transplant | $43.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $44.73 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $47.88 | ↓ -75% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $49.04 | ↓ -75% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $55.57 | ↓ -71% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $60.99 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $62.38 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $63.70 | ↓ -67% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|All Other Plans | $66.41 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Commercial|PPO | $66.41 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Commercial|HMO | $66.41 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $67.44 | ↓ -65% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $67.77 | ↓ -65% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $74.55 | ↓ -61% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $74.55 | ↓ -61% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $74.55 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $81.32 | ↓ -58% |
| Independent Med System | Commercial|All Plans | $81.32 | ↓ -58% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $88.10 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $88.10 | ↓ -54% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $88.10 | ↓ -54% |
| PHCS | Commercial|PPO | $94.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $94.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $94.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $94.88 | ↓ -51% |
| PHCS Savility | Commercial|PPO | $94.88 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|AP3 | $97.59 | ↓ -49% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $101.65 | ↓ -47% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $111.98 | ↓ -42% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $115.21 | ↓ -40% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $135.53 | ↓ -30% |
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Ertapenem 1000 mg/10 ml IV (dilution #1) desensitization - cnr at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | $2,170.07 | $9.18 – $608.26 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | $1,364.00 | $9.16 – $608.26 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $192.58 | $15.72 – $135.53 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | $2,065.20 | $9.18 – $608.26 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $268.61 | $129.82 – $129.82 |
| HCA HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | FRIENDSWOOD | $826.69 | $9.18 – $608.26 |
| Covenant Children's Hospital | Lubbock | $951.07 | $31.57 – $134.63 |
| HCA HOUSTON CONROE | CONROE | $948.51 | $9.16 – $608.26 |